Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Songsmith Loesser thinks of himself as a kind of folk musician of the jukebox, capturing "topical feelings." He likes to think that he avoids "idealizing the romantic. Of course, I slip every now and then, and turn out something like Moon of Manakoora...
...article in Ordnance magazine, Dr. Zwicky announced that he and his associates hope to hurl artificial meteors beyond the earth's atmosphere, to bombard the moon, Jupiter and other planets in an effort to find out what they are made of. The scientists also hope to record the mysteries of space with rocket-borne telescopes, spectrographs and other scientific instruments...
Such missiles, Dr. Zwicky believes, may be projected to the moon and other planetary bodies, and the collisions will be visible through telescopes on the earth. Others will become artificial satellites of the earth, whirling forever around our planet...
...year, and 22,000 phone calls were going through its switchboards every day. Last week, U.N. technicians demonstrated how fast their radio teletype is: a query to the U.N. office in Geneva brought a flash right back: "Having a heat wave. . . . Lake Geneva looks most romantic under a summer moon...
...Esplanade Concerts opened Tuesday evening, 25,000 heat-weary Bostonians turned out to stretch on the cool grass, commune with the innumerable pretty girls, as well as to hear the pleasant, undemanding music played by Arthur Fielder and his Boston Symphony group. Just as the concert began, a full moon rose from behind Boston's buildings, and from the Charles came a light breeze to mitigate the day's blistering heat. As the sky grew darker, and the trees lining the river became black silhouettes, any regular concert-goers present probably were irritated by the rise and fall of chatter...